04-03-2014, 05:19 PM
Thanks Jenny!
Nice to here you're a gamer too! Ancient Roman RPG has been very long time in my mind, and there seems to be none of them, which would've been made accurately. "Hollywood Roman" expansions for D&D aren't enough for me.
I've always thought Apulo-Corinthians WITH cheekpieces, and I personally don't like very much helmets without them. It was completely new information for me, that none of the surviving 59 examples of those helmets don't actually have cheekpieces or proper hinges for applying them. I'm just now reading Paddock's thesis about it, but it has nearly 900 pages, so it's quite a task...
In my opinion though it's not possible that there could've been cheekpieces added to them, even though we havent find those exact helmets (yet?). The relief on the altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus (circa 122 BCE) shows a tribunus with an Apulo-Corinthian helm. But it hadn't cheekpieces after all, even though I remembered it did!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...vre_n2.jpg
Nice to here you're a gamer too! Ancient Roman RPG has been very long time in my mind, and there seems to be none of them, which would've been made accurately. "Hollywood Roman" expansions for D&D aren't enough for me.
I've always thought Apulo-Corinthians WITH cheekpieces, and I personally don't like very much helmets without them. It was completely new information for me, that none of the surviving 59 examples of those helmets don't actually have cheekpieces or proper hinges for applying them. I'm just now reading Paddock's thesis about it, but it has nearly 900 pages, so it's quite a task...
In my opinion though it's not possible that there could've been cheekpieces added to them, even though we havent find those exact helmets (yet?). The relief on the altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus (circa 122 BCE) shows a tribunus with an Apulo-Corinthian helm. But it hadn't cheekpieces after all, even though I remembered it did!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...vre_n2.jpg
Antonius Insulae (Sakari)
